Tabloids – the chest beating edition

Having bagged a second governor in 2 years, NY media is strutting its stuff in our face

yells The Daily News, it being understood that what they say is an order that must be obeyed

NY Post has the same attitude, only snarkier

whole the NY Times pretends to take the high road by promising the same scrutiny to Obama’s designated Cuomo. What they forget is that they went way beyond watchdog and became kingmaker, judge, jury and executioner – all as Obama’s flunkies of course.

I am old enough to remember when voters had a say in those matters.

Here’s another headline from last September, to make it clear what this is all about

I was a little upset yesterday when I heard the news. I hate to see B0 or the Times win in this case.

I don’t live in NY, I live in VA. And edge, I don’t think you have to worry about electing someone who graduated from Pat Robinson’s Regent U Law School just to send a message to 0bama. New Yorkers are smarter than that. And I’m sure Cuomo has his issues, all male politicians do in my book. Is his hat even in the race yet?

Cuomo didn’t officially declare – like Obama waited until the coast was clear. But we have been told at nauseam about his impressive war chest. What war? (unless some was spent on the NYT/DN/NYP campaigning for him).
I wouldn’t be so convinced about New Yorkers’ smarts, just look at the mayors we have been having – they always went with the worst choice there (aided and abetted by the media)

Politics is just like war, very bloody. I forgot how wacked out Bloomberg is. Didn’t he declare war on Va awhile back over the gun laws in our state? And before that it was St Rudy. Ok, I take back what I said about New Yorkers being smart.

I was rooting for Dave. He had a campaign-type TV ad which aired now and then, a bit of a biography, and I found it compelling.

As to the depths of the NY Times, I remember perhaps 6 decades ago when as a sr high school student, I read daily from the NY Times aloud in class. My school had a daily subscription (probably 35 copies) to it, and it was the definitive source.

Yeah, I share the feeling. This is the paper which had the IT’S HIS PARTY” headline on Obama halfway through the primaries (before RBC). And NY Post had the “SHE’S TOAST” headline after the NC primary (forgetting to report Indiana)